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Q: ValueError: cannot reshape array of size n into shape (n,height,width) I'm doing data processing for a cnn, and my data set is the root image of the plant. When I try to reshape the minibatch set for the input of keras, I cannot reshape it.
My test is like this:
subset = chose_data(imgs, 1)
subset.shape

(1,)

the subset only contain one image and the shape of the image is:
subset[0].shape

(1720, 261)

the subset:
array([ array([[255, 255, 255, ..., 255, 255, 255],
       [255, 255, 255, ..., 255, 255, 255],
       [255, 255, 255, ..., 255, 255, 255],
       ...,
       [255, 255, 255, ..., 255, 255, 255],
       [255, 255, 255, ..., 255, 255, 255],
       [255, 255, 255, ..., 255, 255, 255]], dtype=uint8)], dtype=object)

when I do
subset.reshape((subset.shape[0], subset[0].shape[0], subset[0].shape[1]))

I get the value error: cannot reshape array of size 1 into shape (1,1720,261)
the chose data method:
def chose_data(data, m):
    index = np.random.randint(0, len(data), size = m)
    data_rand = data[index]

    return data_rand

and the data load method:
data_dir = "/.../data/"
images = []
files = glob.glob (data_dir + "*.jpg")
for file in files:
    image = cv2.imread(file, 0)
    images.append(image)

imgs = np.array(images)

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MRS. ERMA MAXWELL
Alabama - Mrs. Erma Maxwell, 82, a retired school bus driver for 28 years at Oakfield-Alabama Central School, died Monday, August 30, 2010 at United Memorial Medical Center, in Batavia following a brief illness.
Mrs. Maxwell was born November 12, 1927 in Alabama, the daughter of the late Earl and Mary (Rein) Hall.
She was a member of the Alabama-Basom Methodist Church; a wedding photographer for many years and loved spending time with family and friends. Her favorite pastime was solving jigsaw puzzles.
Her husband, Glen (Rusty) Maxwell died 2006.
Survivors include two sisters, Nina Hall of Batavia and Ruth (Earl) Geer of Alexander and two sisters-in-law, Jane Hall and Verna Hall, both of Basom and nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews.
She was the sister of the late Lloyd and Everett Hall.
Graveside services will be 10 a.m. Thursday at the Alabama Cemetery. Services will follow at 11 a.m. at the Alabama - Basom United Methodist Church, 1392 Church St., Alabama. Memorials may be made to Alabama Fire Department, P.O. Box 798, Basom, New York 14013 or the Alabama - Basom United Methodist Church, 1392 Church Street, Alabama, New York 14003.
Arrangements were completed by the Burdett & Sanford Funeral Home, 11 Maple Avenue, Oakfield. Condolences may be made at www.burdettandsanford.com.
MAXINE A. GRASSO
Batavia - Mrs. Maxine A. Grasso, 68, of Batavia, retired food service manager at Notre Dame High School in Batavia, died Monday, August 30, 2010 at United Memorial Medical Center.
Mrs. Grasso was born June 21, 1942 in Buffalo, a daughter of the late Max and Eugenia Halor Baszczynski.
A member of Ascension Parish and their Altar and Rosary Society, Mrs. Grasso enjoyed traveling with her husband.
She loved her grandchildren and her Notre Dame "family" where she devoted much of her time.
She is survived by her husband of 48 years, Jerome Grasso; her children, Nancy (Michael) Piscitillo of Boston, New York, Lisa (Steven) Grice of Batavia and Jay (Hope) Grasso of LeRoy; her son-in-law, John Netter of Lancaster; seven grandchildren, Matthew and Cara Piscitillo of Boston, New York, Alex and Casey Grice of Batavia and Zachary, Nicholas and Hailey Grasso of LeRoy; her brother, Robert (Marge) Baszczynski of Utah; her sister, Christine (Stan) Radwan of Evans and several nieces and nephews.
She is the mother of the late Nadine M. Grasso-Netter who died January 29, 2009.
Friends may call on Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. at the H.E. Turner & Co. Funeral Home, 403 East Main Street, Batavia. Her Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at Ascension Parish - St. Anthony's Church, 122 Liberty Street, Batavia. Entombment will be in St. Joseph's Mausoleum, Batavia.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Genesee Cancer Assistance, 16 Bank Street, Batavia, New York 14020 or to Notre Dame High School, 73 Union Street, Batavia, New York 14020.
Daniel E. Skivington
Daniel E. Skivington, Sunday, August 29, 2010, at age 55.
He is a son of Elizabeth (Yeoman) Skivington of Rochester and the late Leon Skivington. Mr. Skivington was a machinist at Rochester Products.
Surviving along with his mother are two sons, D.J. Skivington of Batavia and Jason Skivington of Chili; a daughter, Lindsay Skivington of Chili; a sister, Susan Skivington of Chili; his ex-wife Rhonda Skivington of Byron and several nieces and nephews.
He is a brother of the late Michael Skivington.
There are no prior calling hours and services will be private. Burial will be in Holy Sepulcher Cemetery. Condolences may be made at www.bataviafuneralhomes.com.
Arrangements were completed by the H.E. Turner & Co. Funeral Home, Bergen.
Kathleen A. (Rybarczyk) Mogavero
Kathleen A. (Rybarczyk) Mogavero, 62 of West Seneca, NY died August 29, 2010 at the Father Baker Manor in Orchard Park. Born July 3, 1948 in Buffalo, NY she is daughter of the late William J. (Harriet A. Marsh) Gohr.
Mrs. Mogavero was a member of St. Gabriel's Church. She graduated from Meyer Memorial Nursing School and practiced as a Registered Nurse at many hospitals in the Buffalo area before retiring from Health Care Plan in West Seneca. Preceded in death by her first husband Kenneth Rybarczyk.
She is survived by her husband Charles M. Mogavero of West Seneca; son Scott (Melissa) Rybarczyk of Buffalo; daughter Lisa J. Rybarczyk of Buffalo; step-son Samuel (Kristie) Mogavero of Hamburg; step-daughter Janine (Brian) Wilson of IN; mothers-in-law Irene Piesczynski of West Seneca; Mary Mogavero of Batavia; she was the sister of Clayton (Carol) Gohr of Orchard Park; Carol (George) Dewald of Springville; the late Jean (Robert) Dippold, the late William (Josie) Gohr and the late Grant (Joyce) Gohr. 4 Grandchildren survive along with several nieces, nephews and cousins.
The family will be present from 4 to 7:30PM with a memorial service to follow at 7:30 PM on Wednesday September 1, 2010 at the Paul A. Kloc Blossom Chapel, Inc., 4680 Clinton St. (corner of Borden Rd.) West Seneca, NY 14224. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM on Friday September 3, 2010 at the Gilmartin Funeral Home & Cremation Company, Inc. 329-333 W. Main St. Batavia, NY 14020.
Memorials may be made to the family to be distributed to Hospice of Buffalo in Kathy's name. Flowers are gratefully declined. For more information or to sign the online guest registry please go to www.gilmartinfuneralhome.com or call 343-8260. Arrangements completed by the Gilmartin Funeral Home & Cremation Company, Inc. 329-333 W. Main St. Batavia, NY 14020.
Josephine Emily Mager
Josephine Emily Mager, 96, of Batavia died Sunday (August 29, 2010) at Genesee County Nursing Home.
She was born in Bethany Center on April 10, 1914 a daughter of the late Anthony and Anna Dyrbala Waclawski.
Her husband Frank Mager died in 1986.
Joseph was a loving mother and grandmother and enjoyed family gatherings and holidays. Crocheting and making afghans for her children and grandchildren were her favorite past times. In past years she worked for the former E.N. Rowell Box Factory and Kisiel Die Casting Co. For many years she worked bingo and lawn fetes at Sacred Heart Church. She was a volunteer at the Senior Center and Genesee County Nursing Home for over 20 years. She was a member of Sacred Heart Church, the Altar and Rosary Society and the Apostleship of Prayer. For numerous years she was the treasurer of the Altar and Rosary Society and a member of the National Assoc. of Retired Federal Employees.
Surviving are three daughers and two sons in law, Mary Lou (late James) Klein of Batavia, Barbara and Richard Satkowski of Medina and Suzanne and Joseph Koziol of Batavia. A son and daughter in law, Frank and Margie Mager of Alexander. Ten grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren, 2 step great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews also survive. Her sister and brother in law, Joan and Ralph Torcello of Batavia. A sister in law, Alfreda Waclawski of Virginia and a brother in law, Joseph Polec of Buffalo.
She was the grandmother of the late Kathleen Mager and sister of the late, Helen Hunt, Julia Slusar, John Waclawski, Lt. Col. Walter Waclawski, Joseph Waclawski, Mary Dombroski, Sophie Adolph, Stella Kawacz and Frances Polec.
Friends and family may call Wednesday from 2 - 4 and 6 - 8 PM at the J. Leonard McAndrew Funeral Home, 2 Bogue Ave., Batavia. Prayers will be Thursday at 8:45 AM at the J. Leonard McAndrew Funeral Home followed by a Mass of Chrsitian Burial at 9:30 AM at Ascension Parish (Sacred Heart Church). Entombment will be in St. Joseph Cemetery.
Those desiring may make memorial contributions in the form of Mass Offerings or American Diabetes Assoc. 315 Alberta Dr., Amherst, NY 14226 or Genesee Cancer Assistance, 16 Bank St., Batavia, NY 14020.
The Altar and Rosary Society will recite the Rosary at 5:45 PM on Wednesday at the funeral home.
Expressions of condolence may be made at; www.mcandrewfuneralhomes.net.
Arrangements were entrusted to the J. LEONARD MCANDREW FUNERAL HOME, 2 BOGUE AV.E, BATAVIA, NY RONALD P. KONIECZNY, DIRECTOR & VETERAN.
MRS. FRANCES H. SLOVICK
Batavia - Mrs. Frances H. Slovick, 92, of Batavia, who worked in operations and programming at Doehler-Jarvis Division Of National Lead in Batavia for over 30 years, died Thursday, August 26, 2010 at the New York State Veteran's Home.
Mrs. Slovick was born December 21, 1917 in Batavia, a daughter of the late Frank and Wanda Stachowski Yasses.
She was a member of St. Joseph's Church and the Widow's group of the church. Mrs. Slovick also taught Data Processing at BOCES.
Her husband, John F. Slovick, died in 1975.
Survivors include three brothers, Frank (Lorraine) Yasses and Leonard Yasses, both of Batavia and Edwin (Mickey) Yasses of Stafford; three sisters, Genevieve Rudolph and Dolores Krantz, both of Batavia and Alice (Amelio) Taddei of Oakfield; several nieces and nephews including Laurie Hopkins, Sandra Hussar and Valerie Maher, and several great-nieces and great-nephews.
She was a sister of the late Irene Bachulak, Alfreda Walton, Lorraine Maher, Theodore Yasses, and Henry Yasses.
There are no prior calling hours. Her Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Monday at 9:30 a.m. at St. Joseph's Church, 303 East Main Street, Batavia. Entombment will be in St. Joseph's Mausoleum. In lieu of flowers and memorials, please give your gift of time and visit an elderly family member or friend. Condolences may be made at www.bataviafuneralhomes.com.
Arrangements were completed by the Bohm-Calarco-Smith Funeral Home, 308 East Main Street, Batavia.
Rocco J. Zinni
Batavia - Rocco J. Zinni, 42, of Batavia, an employee at Tops Markets for the past 8 years, died suddenly, Thursday, August 26, 2010in Batavia.
Mr. Zinni was born April 30, 1968 in Batavia, a son of the late Valentine and Joan A. (Walker) Zinni.
He was a member of Ascension Parish, St. Anthony's Church and was described as "a man of few words, with a loving heart."
Surviving are his fiancé Roxane Vanelli of Batavia; a brother, Val (Shelly) Zinni of Batavia and a nephew, Valentino Rocco Zinni of Batavia.
He was the brother of the late Joseph Zinni.
Private services will be at the convenience of the family. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Crossroads House, P.O. Box 403, Batavia, NY 14021. Private burial will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery. Arrangements were completed by Bohm-Calarco-Smith Funeral Home, 308 E. Main St., Batavia. Condolences may be made at www.bataviafuneralhomes.com.
Eleanor F. Kisiel DeFilippo
Eleanor F. DeFilippo, 83, of Batavia died Wednesday (August 25, 2010) at United Memorial Medical Center after a brief illness.
She was born in Batavia on February 21, 1927 a daughter of the late Stanley and Gladys Wisniewski Kisiel.
Her husband, Rocco (Zock) DeFilippo died on September 14, 1991.
Mrs. DeFilippo was retired from Falcone Electric where she was a secretary for many years. She was formerly a secretary for R. E. Chapin Manufacturing and the former Kisiel Die Casting Co.
She enjoyed being with her family especially her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Cooking, cleaning, canning and solving crossword puzzles were some of her favorite past times. She was a member of Ascension Parish and the Polish Falconettes.
Surviving are four daughters and three sons in law: Cheryl and John Slane, Sharon Eaton, Deborah and Joseph Caruso and Roxanne and Michael Schulte all of Batavia. Eight grandchildren: Megan and Maren Slane, Paul (Jodi) Avery, Allison (Edward) Foley, Kelly Bishop, Michelle (Vincenzo) Faletti, Richard Wagner and Dana Schulte. Three great grandchildren: Gianna Jo and Sophia Marie Faletti and Jacey Lynn Wagner. A sister, Wanda Pulvino and a brother Henry Kisiel both of Batavia.
She was the grandmother of the late Joeph Paul Caruso III and sister of the late: Helen Johnson, Mary Pcionek, Dorothy Kujawski, Cecil Kisiel and Stanley Kisiel.
Friends and famfily may call Friday from 3 - 7 PM at the J. LEONARD MCANDREW FUNERAL HOME, 2 BOGUE AVE., BATAVIA. A Mass of Christian Burial will be Saturday at 9:30 AM at Ascension Parish (Sacred Heart ). Please assemble at church. Burial will follow in St. Joseph Cemetery.
Those desiring may make memorial contributions in the form of Mass Offerings or to Crossroads House, P.O. Box 403, Batavia, NY 14020.
Arrangements were entrusted to the J. LEONARD MCANDREW FUNERAL HOME, 2 BOGUE AVE., BATAVIA. RONALD P. KONIECZNY, DIRECTOR & VETERAN.
Mrs. Julia A. Burns
Batavia - Mrs. Julia A. Burns, 90, a retired employee of the Richmond Memorial Library, died Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at the Crossroads House in Batavia.
Mrs. Burns was born October 16, 1919 in Olean, the daughter of the late Donato and Angelina Defemia Fontasia.
She was a member of and volunteered at the St. Jerome Guild, the Salvation Army and the Friends of Richmond Memorial Library.
Her husband, Edward W. Burns died in 1982. Survivors include two sons: Edward (Mary) Burns of Batavia and Patrick (Traci) Burns of Missouri; three daughters: Barbara (Peter) Corbelli of Batavia, Kathleen (Frank) Fear of Michigan and Jeanette (Buddy) Campbell of Orchard Park. Also surviving are 11 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren, nieces, nephews and her extended family at Washington Towers.
Friends may call on Thursday from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Bohm-Calarco-Smith Funeral Home, 308 E. Main St., Batavia. Her Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:00 a.m., Friday, August 27, 2010 at Resurrection Parish, St. Mary's Church, 18 Ellicott St., Batavia. Memorials may be made to Richmond Memorial Library, 19 Ross St., Batavia, NY 14020 or Crossroads House, P.O. Box 403, Batavia, NY 14021. Burial will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery. Condolences may be made at www.bataviafuneralhomes.com

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The mission of the CDDA is to conduct integrative, multi-disciplinary, transformative research and development, at the pre-competitive stage, that will (i) analyze and visualize massive, complex, multi-dimensional and multi-scale dynamic data to transform chaos into knowledge, and (ii) be applicable to many industrial sectors, such as health care, security, search, and entertainment.
The motivation for this center is the lack of scalable algorithms, methods and solutions for addressing the ever increasing amounts of data that industry uses. The focus is on data that is massive, dynamic, complex and multidimensional. The goal of the center is to discover, develop and apply data analytics solutions to industry problems involving such data so that the current data chaos is transformed into knowledge and industry products.
Continuously evolve an understanding of the technological needs of the public sector through direct contact with industry professionals and through the use of field data.
Identify basic research themes that have a clear relationship with industry and the needs of the public sector.
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Why the Brexit follies could save the EU: Burman
By Tony BurmanForeign Affairs Columnist
Sat., July 2, 2016timer3 min. read
Don't be surprised if Brexit never happens.
That astonishing thought became more than possible this week as Britain's political battleground descended into treachery and farce.
In a chaotic response to the slim referendum vote to pull Britain out of the European Union, London's Palace of Westminster was littered with the victims of political backstabbing and intrigue.
On top of the pile was Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London who led Britain's campaign to leave the EU and was regarded as the front-runner to succeed Prime Minister David Cameron. He stunned the nation Thursday morning by announcing that, no, he wouldn't be running to become prime minister.
Johnson, who studied classics at Oxford University and once argued that studying Greek and Latin would keep young people off the streets, became the centre of his own personal Greek drama. In an act of treachery, his close colleague, Michael Gove, withdrew his support of Johnson at the last minute, saying that he now felt "Boris cannot provide the leadership." Gove announced he would run for the top job instead.
This has set up an unpredictable race for Cameron's job. Gove's strongest opponent is Theresa May, the home secretary, who was a low-key supporter of the Remain side during the referendum campaign.
As if this wasn't enough, Britain's opposition Labour party is also in tatters. Its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, under attack for his lacklustre support of the pro-Europe side in the referendum, received an overwhelming vote of non-confidence from Labour MPs. The pressure on him to resign is building.
So that's where politics stand in Merrie Olde England, barely a week after the historic referendum on Europe. The final vote by a narrow 52-48 margin was to "leave" the EU, but there is increasing doubt about when this will take effect.
In the modern history of Britain, the events in this past week have been particularly momentous. But at week's end, there are three scenarios that are beginning to take shape.
First, there is no certainty that Brexit — the U.K.'s withdrawal from the EU — will actually ever happen.
Second, the idea of a 50-per-cent-plus-one referendum deciding such colossal issues in the life of a nation is increasingly being discredited.
And third, it will likely take another election to even begin to restore the credibility of the Britain's floundering and self-absorbed political and media elites.
In spite of the shock of the referendum result, the country's politicians have asserted that the vote is not reversible. But, in fact, it is. Referendums such as this one are "advisory" to the government; they are not binding.
In order to leave the EU, the British government needs to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, and indications are that this won't happen before the end of this year. Then, and only then, do negotiations begin for a two-year period. And there is a history in the EU of "second referendums." Voters in Denmark and Ireland, for example, initially rejected EU treaties before subsequently electing to adopt modified arrangements.
The longer the wait, the more damage there will be to the U.K. economy, raising the real prospect of buyer's remorse. The fact is that the Leave campaign — led by Johnson and Gove — consistently lied in a campaign that was a victory of demagoguery over democracy.
But already, in terms of an economic backlash, there are signs that the biggest losers will be many of the working class people who voted to leave.
In the days since the vote, there has also been more criticism about the referendum process. On an issue with such historic meaning — in this case possibly the dissolution of both the United Kingdom and the European Union — why would the government allow the margin of victory to be as tight as 50 per cent plus one?
One of the campaign leaders implied that last May, when he said there should be a second referendum if the margin turned out to be as close as 52-48 — which, in the end, it was.
But this was Nigel Farage speaking, head of the racist UKIP party and a leader of the Leave campaign. He meant there should be a second referendum if the Remain side won by this margin.
Farage doesn't think that anymore. If you need any more signs that Britain's current body politic is terminally ill, that is it.
Tony Burman, former head of CBC News and Al Jazeera English, teaches journalism at Ryerson University. Reach him @TonyBurman or at tony.burman@gmail.com .
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from pecan import abort
from pecan import hooks

from neutron.api import extensions
from neutron.api.v2 import attributes
from neutron.api.v2 import router

from neutron import manager

class ResourceIdentifierHook(hooks.PecanHook):

    priority = 95

    def before(self, state):
        # TODO(kevinbenton): find a better way to look this up. maybe something
        # in the pecan internals somewhere?
        # TODO(salv-orlando): try and leverage _lookup to this aim. Also remove
        # the "special" code path for "actions"
        state.request.resource_type = None
        try:
            # TODO(blogan): remove this dirty hack and do a better solution
            # needs to work with /v2.0, /v2.0/ports, and /v2.0/ports.json
            uri = state.request.path
            if not uri.endswith('.json'):
                uri += '.json'
            # Remove the format suffix if any
            uri = uri.rsplit('.', 1)[0].split('/')[2:]
            if not uri:
                # there's nothing to process in the URI
                return
        except IndexError:
            return
        resource_type = uri[0]
        if resource_type == 'extensions':
            return
        for plural, single in attributes.PLURALS.items():
            if plural == resource_type:
                state.request.resource_type = single
                state.request.plugin = self._plugin_for_resource(single)
                state.request.member_action = self._parse_action(
                    single, plural, uri[1:])
                return
        abort(404, detail='Resource: %s' % resource_type)

    def _parse_action(self, resource, collection, remainder):
        # NOTE(salv-orlando): This check is revolting and makes me
        # puke, but avoids silly failures when dealing with API actions
        # such as "add_router_interface".
        if len(remainder) > 1:
            action = remainder[1]
        else:
            return
        ext_mgr = extensions.PluginAwareExtensionManager.get_instance()
        resource_exts = ext_mgr.get_resources()
        for ext in resource_exts:
            if (ext.collection == collection and
                action in ext.member_actions):
                return action
        # Action or resource extension not found
        if action:
            abort(404, detail="Action %(action)s for resource "
                              "%(resource)s undefined" %
                              {'action': action,
                               'resource': resource})

    def _plugin_for_resource(self, resource):
        # NOTE(kevinbenton): memoizing the responses to this had no useful
        # performance improvement so I avoided it to keep complexity and
        # risks of memory leaks low.
        if resource in router.RESOURCES:
            # this is a core resource, return the core plugin
            return manager.NeutronManager.get_plugin()
        try:
            ext_mgr = extensions.PluginAwareExtensionManager.get_instance()
            # find the plugin that supports this extension
            # TODO(kevinbenton): fix this. it incorrectly assumes the alias
            # matches the resource. need to walk extensions and build map
            for plugin in ext_mgr.plugins.values():
                if (hasattr(plugin, 'supported_extension_aliases') and
                        resource in plugin.supported_extension_aliases):
                    return plugin
        except KeyError:
            pass
        abort(404, detail='Resource: %s' % resource)

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DECATUR, MI -- It's a busy time for the owners of Final Gravity Brewery.
So busy that on the day we stopped in to check out the chicken wings while on our search for Michigan's Best Wings, owners/brewers Kevin and Michael Christensen were off site.
The father and son team were at Watermark Brewing Company brewing their first big batch of beer for their soon-to-be-opened Kalamazoo taproom.
The guys are also trying to get a new 10-barrel system up and running right across from the Decatur brewery.
While they were busy brewing, we were in good hands of co-ower Trina Christensen, kitchen manager Josh Whitlock and pitmaster Eric Wilds, who pulled some fresh wings for us right off the smoker.
Using apple and oak woods, the wings go on the smoker without any seasoning, and then sauced before going into a pizza oven to add a little more flavor.
"We don't have a deep fryer, that's why we put them in the pizza oven," Trina said.
The jumbo wings have been a huge hit, she said. "People just love them!"
We tried several of the sauces, including Sweet Spicy Asian, Garlic Parmesan and Buffalo, the most popular seller on the menu.
We loved the naked wings, as well as a new concoction that kitchen manager Josh Whitlock created combining Siracha and Buffalo sauces.
He called it the "Spicy Stampede."
Ask for it! Demand it! It's that good.
We visited Final Gravity on Aug. 16, 2017, the second-to-last day of our search for Michigan's Best Chicken Wings.
Overall, Amy Sherman and I visited 40 finalists in a two-week period and sampled more than 200 wings.
These finalists are ones nominated and voted on by readers of MLive.
Our journey took us to Detroit, Clarkston, Eastpointe, Ann Arbor, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Decatur, Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Silver Lake, Rockford, Traverse City, St. Ignace, Manistique, Escanaba, Marquette, Mackinac Island, Mackinaw City, Pinconning, Bay City, Frankenmuth, Burton, Davison, Lansing, Eagle and Portland.
Look for our Top 10 list later this week.
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In higher realms
In Turkey a water pipe is known as a 'nargile'. In the past, smoking a water pipe was something only done by the older generations, but about 10 years ago this centuries-old custom has been revived. A visit to Istanbul is not complete without an evening in a water pipe café, where you may choose from all kinds of pipes and flavours to smoke.
A nargile garden in Tophane
Water pipe district
In the heyday of the Ottoman Empire, water pipe smoking was very popular. Smoking a nargile with the sultan was regarded as the highest honour. With the rise of cigarette smoking in World War II, the nargile gradually disappeared but made a strong come-back in the late 1990s. In Tophane, a neighbourhood in the Beyoğlu district, numerous nargile cafes popped up in response to the new trend. Today the neighbourhood has earned the nickname 'Nargile Central'. Most cafés are open 24 hours a day and have large gardens where guests can recline on comfortable lounge cushions under the shady trees. Take your time and try all the different flavours, from cappuccino and banana to mint or peach. For a liquid refreshment, order a cup of tea, Turkish coffee or a fresh fruit juice. Nargilem Kafe boasts a beautiful garden, and Erzurum Nargile is one of the oldest nargiles in Istanbul and certainly worth a visit.
Backgammon and smoking a water pipe
An Arabian Nights fairytale
On practically every corner in Istanbul you can find a nargile café where you can sit back and smoke a water pipe. One of the most famous cafés in town is Erenler Nargile, housed in a courtyard of a former theology school. The café lies on the edge of the Grand Bazaar, but its entrance is tucked away on Çorlulu Alipaşa Medresesi in Çemberlitaş. To find it, follow the local students and men and women who head here straight after work. Inside, regular customers play a game of backgammon. The lovely garden seems straight out of an Arabian Nights fairytale.
Right behind the famous Taksim Square, in the district of Beyoğlu, lies the neighbourhood of Cihangir. This attractive neighbourhood is known for its characteristic narrow streets, parks and squares. Cihangir is a favourite gathering place for local artists, writers and intellectuals. They flock to the many cafés and outdoor patios to discuss their latest projects or talk about life.
The Hippodrome occupies a very prominent position throughout the history of Istanbul. For many centuries the very popular horse races were held here. To this day, the Turks refer to this as 'Horse Square' (At Meydani), although it no longer has anything to do with horses. Today the square is a popular meeting place for locals and destination for tourists.
Istanbul, one of the most romantic cities in the world. This was the place where John F. Kennedy Jr. took his bride Carolyn Bessette on their honeymoon in 1996. The city is situated on the borders of Europe and Asia. And with the architecture, the promenades along the water, the exotic mosaic of flavours, aromas and sounds it is easy to imagine yourself as a character in a tale from One Thousand and One Nights.
In the West, belly dancing is often seen as an erotic performance done by concubines to entice and seduce their sultan. But belly dancing is actually a joyous, graceful and energetic folk dance, performed by women during festivities such as weddings, births and holidays. In Istanbul there are several places where you can still attend one of these traditional belly dancing performances.
Paris may be known as the place for a romantic escapade, but Istanbul is a very strong contender for the title 'City of Love'. It is the perfect getaway for lovers, newlyweds or couples wanting to renew their vows. And what could be more romantic than to stay in a unique hotel with rooms especially furnished for an amorous experience?
The Hagia Sophia, which means 'Church of Holy Wisdom', proudly stands on a hill in Istanbul's old city centre. Originally, the impressive building served as a church, later it became a mosque and since 1935 it has been a museum. But the Hagia Sophia is best known as a spectacular architectural landmark. In 532, a group of architects were commissioned to build a church that would be unlike any other church - and they certainly succeeded.
Colourful oil lamps, fragrant spices and hand-made hamam cloths: spread out over 60 streets and almost 5,000 shops of the Grand Bazaar, the largest covered market in the world offers an enormous selection of goods. Nowhere else in Turkey will you see such a wonderful reflection of the typical melting pot of Turkish cultures, the entrepreneurial spirit of the Turks and the beautiful merchandise that has been sold for centuries.
Time appears to have stood still in the popular districts of Fener and Balat. Small cobblestone streets lined with wooden houses lead visitors past churches, mosques and sacred gravestones. You will even come across a section of a 5th-century Byzantine city wall. It is hardly a surprise that UNESCO has declared Fener and Balat, on the historic peninsula of Istanbul, a World Heritage Monument.
The Topkapi Palace dominates the tip of the cape where Istanbul's old city is located. For almost 400 years, this was the symbolic and political centre of the Ottoman Empire. Once home to the sultan and his harem, the palace is now a beautiful museum. The palace, which encompasses several buildings, charming courtyards and splendid gardens, is now open to the public.
A visit to a hamam, a traditional Turkish bathhouse, is an absolute must for visitors to Istanbul. Immerse yourself literally and figuratively in Turkish culture and history with a centuries old bath ritual and the beautiful mosaic decor. After a treatment with olive soap, mud and a few camel hair wash cloths you leave with silky soft skin.
You don't have to go far to find a romantic retreat and escape Istanbul's hectic traffic and noise. A short ferry ride takes you to the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara, 20 kilometres off the coast of Istanbul. Relax in this oasis of beauty and tranquillity.


I think I forgot I had a website. Went to Savannah over the weekend, had a lot of fun. This weekend I'm heading to Atlanta. I'll try to get back to posting stuff regularly on here, I was doing well for a while.


The first thing that makes France remarkable is its Eiffel Tower. Right? But do you know what's the second best thing? No? Let us tell you that France has its own prestige when it comes to cultural value and the government's effort in leveling up the students worldwide. You know what? If you study in France, you will experience fun and education both taking place at the same time because tourist destinations are situated nearby the study destinations.
France is a glamorous beauty along with an extensive history of higher education. Geographically, it holds a diversified area from the North Sea to the Mediterranean and the English Channel. Whatever you have ever wished to see in foreign countries will be encountered here as an all-in-one offering because it's one of the major hubs of literature, fashion, business, culture, cuisine, and science.
Why Should You Study In France?
1. Authoritarian Education: France's higher education system is considered as one of the best education systems in the world. All of this has happened because of the government's effort to make it better. All the 71 public universities of France are funded by the government. Moreover, if you are into business-related subjects then it can give you the satisfaction beyond expectation because France is a pivot for international business and management education and owns a lot of business schools in the worldwide rankings.
a. Living costs are inexpensive because the French government subsidizes the cost for international students.
b. Tuitions are relatively cheaper as compared to other countries like the US.
c. There are paid internship programs for international students.
e. The scholarship is available for international students.
3. Multicultural Society: Once you start living there, you will find a lot of major nationalities mixed up in the same geographical boundary. Anyway, it will boost your knowledge as you can learn from those people who belong to different parts of the world. In addition to this, you can also network with people who may serve you better in the future.
4. Post Study Visa: Once you finish your studies, you will get a post-study visitor visa of 5 years for masters and Ph.D. So you can stick there in case you shift back to your home country or somewhere else.
5. Jobs: You will find plenty of post-study jobs. Wait! That means you can work while doing your masters or Ph.D.
6. Have Fun at Tourist Attractions: Without fun, studies can never be accomplished. You can visit many demonstrations in France like the Eiffel Tower, Chateau de Versailles, Mont Saint Michel, The Cote d'Azure, The Louvre, and the Mont Blanc (Western Europe's largest mountain).
What Does the Life of a French Student Look Like?
• Have a Menu of Wonderful Things: As a student in France, you won't have even a single dull day. It doesn't matter whether you are studying in school or hanging outside to experience the wonders of the country.
• Museums: Museums are there to educate you about everything related to science, history and modern art. Entry at many of these places is absolutely free.
• Cinemas: There are more than 2,000 cinemas that include concerts, shows, and various kind of special shows.
• Sports Facilities: Students who are interested in sports can also enjoy the benefit of sports facilities. In most cases, you will have to pay a small fee to play. Sports events are organized to be attended by colleges and universities. Furthermore, you will find a wide range of sports like baseball, rugby, cricket, football, basketball, etc.
• Free Internet: So many universities out there offer free help of wireless internet access at no cost. However, You can also find many internet access points in public places.
• Flexible Schedules: When it comes to attending classes, students get a schedule that is flexible to their needs. Even you can yourself pick the times and dates of the course.
• Plenty of Exams: Well, these are not there to scare you or fail you but it's just a kind of assurance of your learning. They estimate that whatever they have been teaching is making an impact or not. So be ready for a weekly test if you are planning to go there.
This is a public French university in the Academy of Versailles that is situated on the west of Paris, Val-d'Oise Department. Cergy-Pontoise is one of the foremost centers of research and teaching that embraces more than 1500 international. Currently, the university is providing all levels of graduate and post-graduate studies. 144 bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees are available in the fields like science & technology, languages, literature, social sciences, law, and economy and management.
As the name suggests, it's one of the greatest French business school in France that was established in 2013. It is derived from two former business schools: Reims Management School(1928) and Rouen Business School(1871). Objectives of school are to lead in the light of innovative leaders having enthusiasm in entrepreneurship. Once you check the data, you will notice a lot of programs in Bachelor and Master in Management. Faculty of the school is organized in six various academic departments that also consist of a language center. It holds a staff of more than 160 professors out of which half of them are international.
IESEG School of Management was founded in 1964 in Lille, France. This school is a member of the largest private university Catholique de Lille that is concerned with the endowment and population in France. IESESG has two campuses, one is in Paris and the other one is in Lille. Financial Times ranked it 31st worldwide in 2017 because of its efficiency in Master of Management. It had also received three international commendations: AMBA, AACSB, and EQUIS. In present, the school has almost 2270 international students.
KEDGE was founded in 1874 which is located in Bordeaux, Toulon, Marseille, and Paris. Besides these campuses, it also has two campuses in China(Suzhou and Shanghai). Like NEOMA, it's also derived from two business schools: BEM(1874) and Euromed(1872). After the merge, it became the largest business school in France. Financial Times has been constantly putting its rank near the top 10 business school in Europe.
Grenoble was formed in 1984 in Grenoble, France by the help of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Grenoble. Its skill in business and management differentiates it among other business schools. GEM also has a name for its teaching in technology management, business strategy, and finance. The school has two Campuses in France and twelve campuses around the globe.
Sorbonne is one of the beautiful public university in Paris, France which was established with a merge among the Pierre et Marrie Curie University, Paris-Sorbonne University, and other smaller institutions. Sorbonne University has 3 faculties: Humanities, Science, and Medicine. Humanities is one of the spectacular teachings of Sorbonne that contains subjects like Musicology, History, Geography, Languages, and Philosophy. About science, we can say that it's a major research institution in France that accommodates 125 laboratories. Medicine faculty is placed in the teaching hospitals like Pitie-Salpetriere and Saint-Antoine.
Ecole Polytechnique is a French public institution of higher education and research in Palaiseau, an outlying district in the southwest of Paris. In 1794, a mathematician named Gaspard Monge founded the school during the time period of the French revolution. It's one of the most remarkable engineering and French scientific schools in France and titled as "Grandes Ecoles" in French. Ecole is known for its Engineering polytechnician scientific degree that is pretty equivalent to the degree of a bachelor and master of science.
CentraleSupelec which is also known as CS is the French Institute of research and higher education in Science & Engineering. It was founded on 1 January 2015. And another fun fact here is that it was also merged between two leading Institutions Ecole Centrale Paris and Supelec in France.
Whenever you move abroad to study, you must be well versed about the Visa issues. French government regulates Visa issues based on your citizenship. For EU citizens who belonged to territory like Norway, Liechtenstein, Iceland, and Switzerland don't have to show a Visa.
Those who don't belong to the EU will have to present the Visa which also requires a residence permit known as VLS-TS that lasts long for a year. If your course duration is more than a year, you can renew it.
d. Proof of your qualifications.
e. A police certification that demonstrates whether you are indulged in any serious criminal activities or not.
f. A proof that you can speak French(Only if your course is in French).
g. A proof that shows that you are financially capable to study there.
h. Once you go to France, you will have to contact OFII(They may examine you medically).
How To Apply For Admission In French Universities?
Before telling you about the procedure, let us clarify that the procedure is different for EU candidates and Non-Eu candidates.
• Your application should be completed.
• Keep your prior study documents ready.
• They will ask about your income because they won't let you in if you are not financially capable.
• Provide a copy of your photo identification or a driver's license.
• Your transcripts are required for the proof that you have earned a high school diploma.
• Some colleges will ask for an essay test.
• You will have to pass the language proficiency test if English is not your native language.
• Many colleges charge a fee for the submission.
• The application must be completed.
• Transcripts must be given that highlights your past qualifications.
• Provide a copy of your passport as well as passport size photograph.
• Get a visa ready if the course duration is more than three months.
• As a Non-EU candidate, an essay will become a critical aspect for you to get into a college. So state facts with perfect grammatical structure.
• An English proficiency test will be needed which can be obtained through a TOEFL test. You can complete this test online. But be sure to complete this test before applying. Otherwise, your application will be delayed because they will definitely ask you for TOEFL test results. This test may cost you some money. And yes, it will be submitted along with your application.
• A copy of your birth certificate is essential.
Are You Ready For An International Experience?
One thing for sure, if you go to France to study, you will learn something new every day. For now, if you got any questions about your journey full of learnings, doors of Leverage Edu are always open for you.


If not more 'getting and spending', then what?
The International New York Times (INYT) reported that a Massachusetts psychologist found from research that materialism is not only bad for the soul, it is also bad for our emotional well-being.
Why is materialism so widespread when its pursuit is not fulfilling?
So, why is materialism so widespread when its pursuit is not fulfilling?
What kind of a life could be counted as fulfilling?
It is a life that is correctly consumed. It is like food and drink that sustains life. It is a burning desire that fires the imagination and drives the will. Not half-heartedness. Not wishy-washy, weather vane, unpredictable, undependable promises, but a commitment that is a statement of what the person stands for.
A fulfilling life is marked by commitment to God and the desire to do His will. The calling is clear, the passion is focused. I have not met anyone who is fulfilled who is not also passionately committed. Correctly consumed.
Thirdly, a fulfilling life is highlighted by the desire to complete the mission. No distraction, no obstacle and no detractor can trip up that person's commitment. If God started the work, then a committed person's desire is to bring it to completion.
Will Christians be numbered among those in that valley? We can fix our eyes on the tangibles and end up less than fulfilled. Or we can decide to do His will and fix our eyes on the fields that are "ripe for harvest" (Luke 10:2) and give our lives to a far more fulfilling vocation.
After all, if everything on earth is meaningless, as the Wisdom Writer attests (Ecclesiastes chapter 1), then perhaps we should lift our sights above the earth.
This article is an excerpt from the book, Ponderings En Route (Singapore, Eagles Communications, 2018) and is republished with permission. The book will be launched on Thursday, July 19, at the Eagles' 50th anniversary celebration and is available for purchase at www.eagles.org.sg.
Peter Chao is the founder of Eagles Communications. As its main evangelist, Peter is a persuasive and captivating public speaker, and is equally incisive and nurturing in his role as mentor to leaders of corporations. He received his graduate training at Peter F Drucker and Masatoshi Ito School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, California.
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Q: Processing comma separated values using a loop in Unix I have a file which contains values like:
CA, PA, NY
ND, MO, MI

I need to process these values one by one. The flowchart will be as follows:
Enter loop -> Process CA; Process PA; Process NY -> Other commands -> Process ND; Process MO; Process MI -> End;

Is this possible using shell scripting?

A: I can think of two obvious ways.  If you'll have access to the tr utility (standard on any UNIX/Posix host) then you could tr ',' '\n' < "$your_data_file" | while read each; do $process $each; done  If not then you could probably still use the shell's IFS (inter-field separator) using something like: cat  "$your_data_file"|  { IFS=','; while read line; do for each in $line; do echo $each; done; done; }  (Note you can use {} grouping or () for a subshell ... they are effectively the same in this example).
Note you might have some extraneous whitespace in $each which you might want to filter out separately.


ASHLAND — Ashland University's 27th annual Environmental Lecture Series features the theme of "Ohio Citizen Science" and the spring semester events will kick off Thursday, Jan. 24, with a presentation by Dr. Sarah Diamond, George B. Mayer Chair in Urban and Environmental Studies and assistant professor of biology at Case Western Reserve University.
The series focuses on science projects that include work by trained volunteers in Ohio.
On March 21, MaLisa Spring, state coordinator for the Ohio Dragonfly Survey, Ohio Biodiversity Conservation Partnership, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, is speaking on the topic of "Ohio Citizens and Dragons: Documenting threatened species with iNaturalist." Join MaLisa Spring to learn more about dragonflies and damselflies in Ohio. Ohio is home to some 170 species of dragonflies and damselflies, with 23 listed as state threatened or endangered. These ferocious aerial acrobats are important for managing insect populations and can serve as indicator species. Learn how you can help these winged predators by documenting them in your own backyard and land management strategies to support your own dragons!


A brand new Qi wireless charger has been created this is capable of wirelessly charging three Apple gadgets right now in the shape of the Apple iPhone, Watch and AirPods in a single convenient computing device or bedside stand. Created from aluminium the iComboStand has launched thru Kickstarter this week and is to be had to back with earlybird pledges available from £60 or more or less $79 or AU$110.
The iComboStand is a fantastically crafted, multi-functional wireless charging dock that measures 147 x 133 x 90mm. As we can see from the images, the wireless charging dock indicates off a fashionable and minimal look design defined via the aluminum frame, rounded corners, and 3 fashionable color alternatives. in the meantime, the compact shape thing allows you to location on any floor in your room, whilst the aluminum frame now not best allows for top class modern-day aesthetics, however also can provide a strong production.
The wireless charging stand supports both portrait and landscape viewing modes during charging your Qi-enabled iPhone, and the iPhone charger delivers up to 10W output. Furthermore, the dock also features a small wireless charging pad with 5W output, so using a iComboStand's AirPods case or any Qi wireless charging AirPods case, it can wirelessly charge your AirPods. Moreover, there is an Apple Watch charger above the small wireless charging pad. And an extra 1A USB port allows it to charge more devices. In addition, the 30W output with Power Delivery ensures it's able to charge up to 4 devices at the same time. Multiple protection features protect you and your devices during charging.
The team behind iComboStand is raising fund for the product on Kickstarter. We can pledge $79 to preorder the wireless charging station with a 30W fast charging adapter and a 1.2m USB-C cable. The bundle will be shipped in June 2019 if reaching its funding goal in 22 days.


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What visionary project would you fund?
by RichardKennaway1 min read9th Nov 201171 comments
I have just received a survey questionnaire regarding future directions in EU (European Union) research funding, and thought it would be interesting to see how LessWrong would answer the main question:
Imagine that EU funding is available for one ambitious, visionary project extending beyond 2020.
What kind of research challenges should such a project address in your area?
What would be the most urgent research tasks?
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[-]JenniferRM10y
Off the top of my head (and assuming arbitrary political/resource requisitioning powers) I might aim for Profoundly Self Sufficient Habitats.
This would basically be a kind of space exploration program on earth. The goal would be to develop a suite of technologies and practices to enable small groups of humans (less than 500) to survive and thrive with a technological civilization for centuries in extreme environments and cultural isolation. We should know how to build a habitat capable of supporting a group of humans generation over generation with construction of more habitat using ambient resources in (1) the Sahara, (2) the Antarctic, (3) deep underground, (4) at sea, (5) near Fukushima or Chernobyl, (6) at the top of Everest, (7) at the bottom of Lake Superior, (8) near deep sea vents, (9) in the upper atmosphere, etc.
You would need a bunch of new technology/culture and it would have to be relatively simple and self supporting, like 3D printers that can print their own components, highly efficient recycling systems, expertise in managing closed ecologies, cultural awareness of the dangers of culture loss/drift in small communities, etc, etc. This technology would probably ha... (read more)
5Curiouskid10yI think that the Seasteading institute is looking into this already. More generally, I think the idea is called permaculture. I agree with you. This is a close second to education reform for me.
2[anonymous]10y.
5JenniferRM10yNo idea. I would expect that to be part of the research... especially if you were trying (for instance) to set up three well running habitats initially and come back 100 years later and find seven habitats that were running with additional optimizations that the initial three lacked. You want persistence, growth, and innovation instead of just grim survival. If you seeded them with "astronaut quality" people then you'll probably get regression to the mean in subsequent generations, and if the initial group was barely surviving then their descendants would probably run out of luck. It seems likely to me that you'd get a more robust trajectory if you start with mostly average people from scratch, but with a seed culture that was optimized by a vastly smarter community to be something they can teach their basically normal kids to use, maintain, and augment in the course of living. The personal satisfaction question loops back more brutally when you think intergenerationally, because the kids certainly never gave informed consent to be part of a traumatic science project. But if lives in such habitats are highly rewarding it stops being such an ethical dilemma. One way to look at it would be to have people live in weird places in exchange for having been given ownership of millions or billions of dollars worth of awesome technology... if they aren't "stuck in a lousy experiment" but instead "inherit stewardship of a treasure" then the ethical question mostly evaporates.
1dlthomas10yYou just need to find a couple hundred for each habitat - seems easy enough.
[-][anonymous]10y
Sens is a good anti-ageing initiative - that has the potential to really get rejuvenation research off the ground - I'd like see get more funding.
Although the academy is slowly starting to realize that defeating aging is worth pursuing indirectly by trying to solve standard age related diseases, it is dose by no means put in the effort I liked to see, of course this would require additional funding from "outside" unless we want to stop doing other kinds of medical research. . .
7Mercurial10yI daresay that most reasonably well-funded medical research would become almost entirely obsolete if SENS were to work. It's hard to justify researching more effective heart attack medication when no one gets biologically old enough for heart attacks to be a serious problem anymore.
4[anonymous]10yYou are certainly right that a lot of big pharma research would become obsolete if "robust rejuvenation" (i.e. 30 years extended life with treatment starting in middle age) is achieved but we don't want to stop doing basic medical research even if SENS works, You might not be that interested in producing more efficient calcium channel blockers [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_channel_blocker], but you are probably still interested in calcium channels in smooth muscle. Aside from the aspect of treating non-age related diseases, we need to understand biology in order to make SENS work long term; one of Aubrey De Grey's key claims is that we know (in principal) enough about the aging we see today in order to know what to treat, but that probably isn't true for the kind of aging we would see in a 150-year-old. (This is not something De Grey is disputing).
2Mercurial10yI totally agree with you. What I mean is that most of the money currently being poured into, say, repairing heart disease damage could instead be poured into researching the nature of metabolism in general. Trying to manage the symptoms for heart disease, morbid obesity, cancer, Alzheimer's, and all the other diseases associated with aging just doesn't seem nearly as efficient as fixing the common problem causing all of these. We would still want to explore the nature of biology once something like SENS succeeds, true, but we wouldn't need to do so by dumping tons of money into repairing people who are dying right now of those diseases. It becomes "How does this work?" research instead of "How do we keep these people from dying tomorrow?" research.
3[anonymous]10yI do agree that medical research focuses too much on managing age related disease - sweeping under the carpet strategy - rather than curing (might just be a too bit fastidious about this, we might mean the same thing) but viewing aging as unitary process - that can be cured in a single stroke "fixing the common problem" - is probably not an accurate description. Aging is a number of different processes from miss-folded protein build up to an increase in number of mutations, that have in common that they build up over time and have a negative effect on our health. SENS aims to solve each of these problems separately.
2Mercurial10yI agree. Any impression I give otherwise is an artifact of my brevity.
1machrider10yDoesn't that depend on heart attacks being a function of age rather than a function of time? Anti-aging doesn't necessarily mean anti-arterial-plaque-buildup. I do agree that entire classes of problems might go away though, which would be amazing.
3[anonymous]10yArteriosclerosis is a condition that is considered a part of aging/age related disease. Since it arise probably partly due to macrophages inability to break down extracellular aggregates (oxidised cholesterol) and lipids reacting with calcium that build up over time, as well as loss of elasticity of the arterial wall.
[-]NancyLebovitz10y
Microbe ecology. It's a huge subject, and we've barely started to understand it.
1RichardKennaway10yCan you expand on that? I hadn't heard of it before, and the wiki article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial_ecology] isn't much more than a stub. What are the fundamental questions, and what difference would it make if we knew the answers?
3NancyLebovitz10yThere are a lot of kinds of plants and animals. They interact. Their current and future distribution makes a difference, and it takes both general principles and detailed local knowledge to have any idea of what's going on. Discordant Harmonies is about the idea of balance and stability of Nature, and that it's just something people made up. There isn't a reliable pattern of succession when a forest is destroyed, and that cute pattern of opposing sine curves between predators and prey has never been observed in the real world, not even for microbes in a test tube. Microbes are smaller and more numerous and weirder and faster changing than plants and animals, and people have done much less to observe them in the wild, for tolerably obvious reasons. Microbes make a difference to disease, to digestion, to soil formation, and probably to a number of things I haven't thought of. It would be very cool transhumanism if people could watch bacteria (probably with machine augmentation, I suspect there would be optical problems, and I'm sure there would be information processing problems) as easily as they watch birds. At least, that's what I mean by microbe ecology.
1billswift10yI've actually been thinking about this, rather casually, for a couple of decades. For one thing, this kind of understanding would be necessary for a long-term closed environment, like for a large space colony. Also, it would be useful, like a seed bank, in restoring the earth if there was a sufficiently bad catastrophe.
0JenniferRM10yAre you aware of bioreacter/chemostat research [https://controls.engin.umich.edu/wiki/index.php/Bacterial_Chemostat_Model]? If so, could you suggest some "best of breed" review articles or a textbook on the subject? I know of the research but haven't read into its literature, and would appreciate an educated pointer :-)
[-]XiXiDu10y
A world-wide ABC sensor network.
Mobile phones are becoming cheaper and more widespread all the time. All new mobile phones could in future be equipped with sensors to detect biological pathogens, hazardous chemical agents and a Geiger counter for measuring radioactivity. The data could then be anonymzed and uploaded to be analyzed and used for the early detection of biological, chemical or nuclear risks.
Such a network could thwart the outbreak of infectious diseases, chemical accidents or nuclear terrorism (e.g. dirty bombs).
1[anonymous]10yHmm the question is if you actually could construct something that has the potential to detect unknown biological pathogens and then fit it in a phone. . . well worth a try i guess.
1XFrequentist10yABC=Atomic, Biological, Chemical? That's much better than CBRNE (Chem, Bio, Rad-Nuke, Explosive), which seems to be the common phrase.
1knb10yI'm familiar with NBC, (nuclear, biological, chemical) for current catastrophic risk and GNR (genetics, nano, robotics) for possible future ones.
[-]D_Alex10y
A comprehensive world-wide database of medical records, along with a legal framework to enable use of such records in medical research. Software that uses such records to advance medical knowledge.
[-]TimS10y
Research into treatments that reliably prevent in-group bias and can be cheaply, easily, and effectively implemented (preferably at school or similar setting).
3Jayson_Virissimo10yAnecdotally, I find watching this video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1WN0YMWZU&feature=player_embedded] helps me correct for in-group bias (especially nationalism [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nationalism/] and other forms of tribalism [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Tribalism]) on the margin.
0lessdazed10ygwern has an insight: http://lesswrong.com/lw/7xr/not_by_empathy_alone/58vc [http://lesswrong.com/lw/7xr/not_by_empathy_alone/58vc]
0TimS10yI'm not sure I understand the relevance. In-group bias predicts one of the experimental results: forming groups leads to increased conflict. My point was that a treatment that reduced this effect would do a lot to reduce human suffering.
[-]r_claypool10y
I urge that, with full knowledge of our limitations, we vastly increase our knowledge of the Solar System and then begin to settle other worlds.
These are the missing practical arguments: safeguarding the Earth from otherwise inevitable catastrophic impacts and hedging our bets on the many other threats, known and unknown, to the environment that sustains us. Without these arguments, a compelling case for sending humans to Mars and elsewhere might be lacking. But with them - and the buttressing arguments involving science, education, perspective, and hope
3Jayson_Virissimo10yWhy?
0billswift10ySpace and Human Survival: My Views on the Importance of Colonizing Space [http://www.sylviaengdahl.com/space/survival.htm] Achieving Human Commitment to Space Colonization: Is Fear the Answer? [http://www.sylviaengdahl.com/space/lifeboat.htm] ADDED: Also she has an Amazon Listmania Why We Must Colonize Space [http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Must-Colonize-Space/lm/15QM4CUBDSMAF/ref=cm_lmt_fvlm_f_2_rlrsrs0] that has some interesting reading.
0Jayson_Virissimo10yFair enough.
[-]Curiouskid10y
I admit that I stole this one from Sam Harris.
He suggests that if you improved the neuroscience of lie detection and then implemented it in politics that the implications would be huge. Even if it weren't 100% effective, the threat of using it would be enough to deter many. Current lie detection is based on thing like thermal and electrical readings of the skin. However, these are really inaccurate compared to a potential neuroscientific approach.
I can think of two concepts of lie detection. In the first, the statement is compared with objective truth (i.e. Omega says, "Contrary to the Senator's assertion, this tax credit will not create jobs"). In the second, the statement is compared with the contents of the speaker's mind (i.e. Omega says, "The Senator does not believe that this tax credit will create jobs").
The first type of lie detection would be really awesome, but unlikely to be developed based on physiological study because (to paraphrase from X-Files) the truth is not in there.
The second type probably would not be useful in politics because politics is the mindkiller and I predict that most politicians believe the fundamentals of the principles they assert (based on motivated cognition, to some extent). That said, a truly reliable lie detector would be great in litigation. No more he said, she said issues. Of course, there is still the risk that the witness honestly believes some false facts.
0NancyLebovitz10yYou could ask politicians how much they've researched various questions and (in detail) how thoroughly they've considered alternative possibilities.
1TimS10yThere are lots of interesting questions that I would like to be able to force politicians to answer truthfully. I'm just not sure that any answer would matter to the politician's political followers.
0wedrifid10yActually admit to having considered other possibilities? That sounds dangerous!
-1Curiouskid10yI still think that it would be highly beneficial. Think about Bill Clinton. Think about 9/11. Think about area 51. We could set a lot of conspiracy theories to rest.
6TimS10yI respectfully suggest that you are underestimating the power of motivated cognition. For example, if you believe a conspiracy thoery, then any Omega-verified denial can be explained because the speaker was not in on the truth (i.e. plausible deniability was set up in advance). Actually, I also think you overestimate the importance of fringe theories in partisan politics. (and just to satisfy my curiosity, what Bill Clinton thing are you referring to?)
0Curiouskid10yBill Clinton and Monica Lowinsky. Which reminds me of another application: Lie detection in relationships.
2lessdazed10yPerhaps a few existing ones would be made slightly less popular. Maybe. Say, did you hear about where the technology for the lie detectors came from? The manufacturer that's reproducing the original artifact has ties to the political elite that secretly...
4wedrifid10ySo the old faithful "their lips are moving" isn't sufficient any more?
0Morendil10yCheck out Halperin's The Truth Machine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_Machine].
2gwern10yActually, I just read that for some reason. My take was that it was way too utopian, didn't give much thought to the endless ways people would try to circumvent it, and in retrospect its forecasts for American crime and global nuclear terrorism were hilariously wrong. (Although I am generally in favor of massively increased honesty and truth machines.) The writing was kind of wooden, but apparently it was Halperin's first novel.
0Curiouskid10yOr maybe "the invention of lying". Probably less philosophical though.
0cousin_it10yExcept it won't be regular people using lie detectors on politicians. It will be government officials and big corps using lie detectors on regular people. Also, if/when reliable lie detection tech appears, it probably won't take long for someone to develop a counter: a means of making oneself (or another person) truly believe a given statement. Of course, the first customers of such counter tech will also be governments and big corps.
3dlthomas10yThis actually overstates the difficulty - you don't need to make people truly believe the statement, although that would work. You just need to make the analogues examined mimic those of someone who does truly believe the statement. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see an arms race, with artificial belief driven toward honest belief in the long run.
0Vladimir_Nesov10yI find it implausible for your level of certainty (and/or focus on listed scenarios) to be correct.
0cousin_it10yI agree about the second part. But the first part is pretty obvious, isn't it?
0Vladimir_Nesov10y"Regular people using lie detectors on politicians" does seem impossible, but "government officials and big corps using lie detectors on regular people" (to any interesting extent) is far from clear, it's easy to see how it could be successfully resisted by appealing to human rights intuitions, or channeled towards significantly different forms of use, escaping your description. (Even China's regime is not certain to persist in relevant respects on this timescale.)
0dlthomas10yThis seems apropos. [http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3554]
[-]Raemon10y
I've been leaning towards the conclusion that better innovations in education (this includes both technology and cultural/institutional) would be a huge, multiplicative high level action that would benefit most other initiatives people favor. I strongly doubt we've come close to exhausting the low-hanging fruit in education technique (and in the flexibility to apply techniques as needed to different types of people)
Programs like KIPP applied one major overhaul to the existing system... and then stopped. I'd like to donate to an organization that systematically tries out radically different systems and technological innovations and then attempts to replicate the ones that work.
3djcb10yImproved ways to educate people would indeed be a very worthy goal; sadly, there seems to be little consensus (let alone controlled experiments) as to what makes a good education to whom. Is it the quality of teachers, the size of classes, the availability of technology (or the lack thereof), the homogeneity (or heterogeneity) of the subjects-to-be-taught, rigidity of the school system (or freedom the follow one's own path), etc. etc. that help teaching/learning the most? The research points in opposite ways, and what actually happens in practice seems, to some extent, and maybe not surprising, driven by what's fashionable rather than research. So - improving education is very important, but existing, EU-wide, and worldwide, programs seem to have a lot of trouble to come up with clear answers.
1Raemon10yEssentially, my problem is that the charity I would like to support doesn't actually exist. (Yes, I'm aware of this). This is why I specified it for an "ambitious, visionary project extending beyond 2020."
1Curiouskid10yI agree with you. You should check out Some of the Thiel Fellows. A few of them are dealing with education. http://thielfoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15&Itemid=21 [http://thielfoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15&Itemid=21]
1Raemon10yCool.
Improvement in cryonics technology and storage.
Fully online (accredited by European universities) education
Brain scanning technology that can detect sociopaths
Improved tools for online anonymity
Major study into the genetics of intelligence to complement the work currently done by BGI
1Dr_Manhattan10yPerhaps valuable, but we should first figure out what we'd do with them after detection - I do not see a handy moral solution, and without one we can quickly come to overreaction or atrocities.
2TheOtherDave10yIt's probably worth distinguishing between people in the following scenarios being scanned and found to be a sociopath: a) a suspect in a crime b) someone found guilty of a crime by other means c) very young child d) adult with no criminal record not currently suspected for a crime
0wedrifid10yIn which cases would you most prefer such scans be made?
0TheOtherDave10yb. I expect that in that case we'd use it primarily to inform sentencing and parole decisions, and that might actually improve those decisions. (I'm not particularly confident that it will, though... say 30%?) I'd actively prefer we avoid scanning in cases d and a, except perhaps as research on populations, as I don't trust us to do anything even remotely sensible with the data. I'm not sure about c... it depends mostly on whether we have any way of intervening usefully in their subsequent development.
0Dr_Manhattan10yWhile b sounds useful, it's hardly the visionary project called for. I suspect Konkvistador had something broader in mind.
-1Prismattic10yThis [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127888976] seems relevant.
0NancyLebovitz10yWe should also first figure out how we're going to keep sociopaths from taking over the program.
0wedrifid10yEnsure the role doesn't allow much in the way of status, money, power or any other form of personal gain. Unfortunately that is hard to do given the possibility to gain the aforementioned goods via the opportunity to accept bribes. The most obvious way to go about prevention would be to institute excessively redundant amounts of transparency.
2NancyLebovitz10yRunning a big, important research project which will shape decisions about what to do with a large number of people? There's no way to keep money, status, and power away from that.
[-]Dr_Manhattan10y
Fully online education
[-]JoshuaZ10y
Approximately how much funding are we talking about? Different projects have widely different funding costs.
4RichardKennaway10yFramework Programme 7 (the principal source of government funding for scientific research in the EU) had a total budget of €53.2 billion over I forget how many years, while individual research projects within that have typically had anywhere from 100,000s to tens of millions each. The questionnaire is soliciting views about the directions for the successor to FP7. So imagine you're the one at the top, deciding the areas to allocate this huge pile of money.
[-]Drahflow10y
Small scale fusion power.
Research challenges: How to get hydrogen to fuse into helium using only 500kg of machinery and less energy than will be produced.
Urgent Tasks: (In-)Validate the results of the fusor people, scale up / down as neccessary.
Reasons: Enormous amounts of energy goes into everything. If energy costs drop significantly, I expect sustained, fast and profound economic growth, in this case without too much ecological impact. Also, a lot of high-energy technology will become way more feasible, e.g. space missions.


So at last, Dubai courts have ordered Exential Group, Forex scam company in Dubai, to pay 1 Million AED to one of the client, so there is hope for all other clients, lost the money in this Forex scam.
Most of the clients were employed in Oil, FMCG and Airline companies in Dubai, who were mostly been attracted to poonzy scheme due to word to mouth marketing.
Lawyers say the Dubai Civil Court judgment against Exential in favour of the Filipino cabin crew member is a landmark in the long-running saga.
"Exential tried to baffle their clients with jargon to make it difficult for them," said Barney Almazar, head of legal aid at the Philippine embassy.
"They claimed they were not the ones who invested the funds but they were the ones who had been given the cash so were equally liable for the losses."
The embassy is offering free legal advice to more than 30 victims and its law experts have been shocked at their level of financial commitment. One church group has more than 90 parishioners who together invested more than Dh6m.
"Most of the investors borrowed a lot of money so they did not have the cash to fund a trial, and a local lawyer is very expensive," Mr Almazar said.
Bong Cruz, a leader at Couples for Christ, invested his life savings of $40,000 to help secure the futures of his wife and their two daughters. Now he has some hope of having it returned.
"We are all filing cases," Mr Cruz said. "We can't just sit back and cry. We must fight for it."
Promises of 120 per cent returns on a US$20,000 deposit enticed hundreds to invest in the forex scheme, which collapsed in March last year.
Last July, the Department of Economic Development banned Exential from trading at its Media City base and the first legal cases were set in motion.
The Central Bank is likely to seek a freeze on accounts and listed assets owned by Exential to use in repaying lost funds.
The chief executive of Exential, Sydney Lemos, 36, from Goa in India, is in police custody and does not yet know if he will face criminal charges. A warrant is out for the arrest of others connected to Exential in the UAE and India.
"In January the court proceeded with the hearing and on April 5, it ordered Exential to pay $250,000 for the claim, plus expenses and ongoing interest. The full payment was Dh1m, which is now due," said Mr Almazar, of Gulf Law in Dubai.


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Hurricane Florence (2018) Projected Path, Risk Map and Satellite Image
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Hurricane 2018 Florence Projected Path/ Risk Map and Satellite Image: Mandatory evacuation orders have been issued to over 1 million people in coastal areas of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia as Hurricane Florence of category 4 has lashes southern East Coast of the United States today. It is being feared that the hurricane is nearing category 5.
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Category 3 Hurricane struck on Monday and the hurricane-force winds doubled its speeds from 30 to 60 miles in 12 hours turning it to category 4. Here you can check detailed map of North Carolina.
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Plans to serve wildlife at an 'exotic buffet' for the New Year opening of Chiang Mai Night Safari in northern Thailand have been dropped, after strong protests from animal welfare groups round the world. Visitors to the park's Vareekunchorn restaurant were to be offered wildlife such as lions, tiger, zebras and elephant from Kenya on the menu.
Animal Defenders International (ADI) applauds the decision as it highlights the importance of animal concern in the tourist industry.
ADI campaigns director, Tim Phillips, said: "This outrage would potentially not only have harmed Thai tourism but also encouraged wildlife trafficking in a region which already has severe problems in this field. Tourists are thankfully very sensitive to these issues, and our supporters would certainly not travel to a country where animals are seemingly valued so cheaply. Wild animals deserve to live in the wild and not be eaten as a mere tourist attraction. More and more tourists are questioning the treatment of animals at holiday destinations and tour operators need to respond".
Exodus, winner of last year's Responsible Tourism Award for best tour operator, provides a framework for Responsible Tourism on its website and asks travellers never to buy products that exploit wildlife or aid the destruction of species or their habitat or to buy souvenirs made from endangered species, like ivory; as doing so will only encourage the trafficking.


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The HTS Advantage for Connectivity at Sea
With a number of satellites scheduled for launch in 2017, and users increasingly pushing the limits of satellite networks with high speed data demands, we take a closer look at High Throughput Satellites (HTS) and the benefits they will bring to maritime connectivity.
What is a High Throughput Satellite?
A HTS delivers many times the throughput of a traditional Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) or Mobile Satellite Service (MSS), for the same amount of allocated spectrum in orbit. They take advantage of frequency reuse and multiple spot beams to increase the throughput or delivery speed of information. Together, the increased throughput with no additional spectrum requirement results in a significantly reduced cost-per-bit.
What benefits will HTS bring?
According to iDirect, HTS will fundamentally change the economy of satellite communications delivering high data rates, launching a new era of performance and affordability for end users. For providers like Satcom Global, the fact that the cost-per-bit delivered by HTS is ultimately reduced means that additional value can be built into VSAT propositions.
Looking specifically at the maritime industry, HTS will support access to a range of new high bandwidth applications that can improve operations, on-board productivity and crew welfare. According to market analysts Comsys, bandwidth hungry applications such as route planning, engine diagnostics and weather applications, are all in high demand. Increased bandwidth and performance also serves to eliminate the need to compromise on allocation of resources for business and crew; with increased capacity there is more than enough data at required speeds to support all business needs, as well as the ideal BYOD environment for crew to keep them connected with life onshore.
Are HTS ready to go?
There are already networks with HTS in orbit, and the majority of the large satellite operators are preparing for launches over the next few years, resulting in high throughput capability across the globe.
Leading satellite network operator SES is gearing up for launch of their three hybrid satellites with both wide beams and HTS payloads throughout 2017. SES-15 will launch in May, to initially bring HTS multi-spot beam connectivity to North America, Latin America and the Caribbean for aero customers and traffic intensive data applications. Following in the second half of the year is SES-14, covering the Americas and North Atlantic, and SES-12 covering the Asia-Pacific region.
SES anticipates that unique advantages of both wide beam coverage and high powered spot beams of the HTS will be integral in meeting the fast growing demand for data and serving specific application needs across markets and key congested geographies. Multiple vessels sailing on densely-travelled maritime routes will continue to enjoy high-speed broadband connectivity thanks to the HTS payload, and switch to wide beam coverage while traversing across the oceans, thus bringing about bandwidth and cost efficiency to the industry through services such as Satcom Global Aura.
Last year, satellite operator Intelsat, launched the first two satellites; IS-29e and IS-33e, of their next generation constellation. Performance tests of the satellites, which cover the Americas, Asia and EMEA regions, have shown an impressive 3 to 5 times more capacity, and 10 times more throughput per satellite, than the traditional Intelsat fleet. Results other satellite operators will be keen to follow up and share. Intelsat also launched the IS-32e satellite in February, with the next couple of years bringing more activity and partnerships on ventures such as Horizons 3e.
Horizons 3e is a collaboration between Intelsat and leading Asian satellite network operator SKY Perfect JSAT. Scheduled for launch in 2018, Horizons 3e will bring high throughput Ku-Band connectivity as well as optimised C-Band to the Asia Pacific region, increasing maritime mobility, corporate enterprise and government communications. In February of this year, JSAT announced that they will follow up this collaborative launch, with that of JCSAT-18, to further strengthen capability over the Asia Pacific for both Ku and Ka-band services.
Eutelsat is another satellite network leading the charge with new high throughput satellite technology. Later this month they are due to launch EUTELSAT 172B, a new high capacity satellite with three distinct payloads including; C-Band, regular Ku-Band and HTS Ku-Band designed specifically for inflight broadband, serving densely-used Asia-Pacific flight paths. EUTELSAT 172B breaks new ground as the first high-power satellite in the 3 tonne class. The satellite combines electric power of 13 kW with a launch weight of only 3,500 kg.
Finally, Telesat, the Canadian headquartered global satellite operator is anticipating the launch of two HTS this year, following the initial launch of Telstar 12 VANTAGE in November, connecting the Americas to Europe and the Middle East. The impending Telstar 19 VANTAGE, scheduled for launch next year, will strengthen coverage of the Americas with high capacity Ka coverage over Northern Canada, the Caribbean and North Atlantic, and high throughput Ku over Brazil, the Andean region and the North Atlantic. The Telstar 18 VANTAGE is also expected to launch in 2018 expanding coverage in the growing satellite service markets of China, Mongolia, South East Asia and the Pacific Ocean.
Should I be considering HTS now?
For maritime professionals currently assessing VSAT service options and providers for their vessel communications, our advice is to consider how well prepared a provider is for the emergence of HTS technology, in being equipped to take advantage of the benefits.
Satcom Global Aura VSAT is a global service built with flexibility and scalability at the heart of the offering. It provides access to a wide range of competitively priced, mix and match bandwidth and hardware options designed to meet the varying needs of maritime users such as commercial shipping operators, the fishing industry and yacht owners.
Satcom Global Aura is supported by satellites operated by SES, Intelsat and JSAT, and will take advantage of HTS technology later this year. Satcom Global planned for HTS implementation from its inception, by providing every Aura customer with an iDirect x7 modem, ensuring they had a futureproof setup and a seamless transition onto the Velocity platform.
The other advantage of Satcom Global Aura and the iDirect platform is that they support a wide range of VSAT terminals. Current users of VSAT who are looking to improve the coverage and performance of their service, have the opportunity to switch to Aura without an additional outlay for new hardware. Although we recommend Intellian hardware for performance, reliability and value, we can assess existing VSAT hardware or look at other options for VSAT antenna manufacturers as and when required.
It's an exciting time to be working in the satellite industry with technology advancing quickly. We at Satcom Global would be happy to guide you through options available to ensure you select a communications solution that not only meets your needs now, but is capable of growing with the times and your requirements.
Please contact us to register your interest and one of our friendly experts will get back to you.
" HTS will fundamentally change the economy of satellite communications delivering high data rates, launching a new era of performance and affordability for end users."


We followed the Adige River along its winding path to what I can only call the extreme North of Italy. The beautiful mountains were enshrouded with clouds, leaving a hint of something more, a magical, heavenly place yet to be revealed. Damn clouds.
They were covering the view eevrywhere!
We made it to Forst and were met by Maximillian who works in communications and gave us a very worthwhile tour around the brewery. He did not hold any details back when explaining the history and the brewery operations. He proudly explained that this is the only large scale family owner brewery sill operating in Italy, whereas the others are all run by larger conglomerates (to paraphrase - don't want to get Maximillion into trouble).
There were no less than 98 individual drain pipes from the lauter tun into the boil kettle. Wow, that's distribution of your draining! The mill was capable of 30 tonne of grain per hour, with the average grain bill being 10 tonnes and thus, milled in 20 minutes. Crazy numbers. Amazing machinery for the task at hand.
They have two mash tuns as the gelatinise the starches from Maize at high temperatures and once completed add both to the mash. This gives them an easy way for decoction mashing and also speeds up their cycle.
Mashing takes around 2 hours and as a process with their 5 massive tanks (huge cans!) they produce 8x 64,000 litre batches per day. Maximilian (our guide) was incredibly open and up front about the brewing process, including fermentation. They have 44 lagering tanks for finished product with the average age of lagering being 6 weeks for full strength beer and 4 weeks for their mid strength.
Forst was very picturesque. They even had a small church tower in the middle of the brewery which gave it even more of that 'village' feel.
Forst takes both sides of the road!
the other side of the road - we now know the answer to the Chicken question!
Old brewery - how quaint!
I must say, even the toilets were nice!
It seems patriotism for Süd Tirol is a point of pride here. Impressively large, half red, half white vertically striped flags, some exceeding 5 metres in length, are sporadically and numerously planted throughout the vineyards, fields, towns, castles and hills from Bolzano. To me it would seem the secession from the Austro-Hungarian Empire must still be a fresh victory in these lands. In Rome, when we spoke of our imminent journey north we were, without exception, informed that all people north of Genoa clearly identified themselves as Austrian or German, not as Italian -"they don't see themselves as Italian" we were told more than once. This has borne no truth from my time in Trento and it's lake filled and mountainous surrounds, where a sense of pride in their Italian cooking and a relaxed Italian life is a serious form of social and national identity.
I wonder if what is more true is that Süd Tirolese identify themselves with neither Italian or Austrian/German and only as independent Süd Tirolel. The language maybe heavily German but a language should not be considered the beginning and end for cultural independence. We need look no further than the Americans, British and to a lesser extend Australia for how much cultural difference can exist and independence be sought after from nations with the same language.
Anyway, enough uneducated observing and we move on to Forst itself.
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